Glare reducer for headlights



Dec.19,1922. 1,439,313.

A J. A. LA-NDIS.

GLARE mum FOR HEADL'IGHTS.

FILED MAY 2&1920- awuuntoz JfLLandz'o.

Patented Dec. 19,1922. I w i f V UNITED stares earns-"r mm.

JESSE A. LANDIS, OF EATON, OHIO. GLARE REDUCER FOR ETEADLIGHTS. Application filed May 28, 1920. Serial No. 384,980. To'all whom it mag concern: placed against the back portion of the Be it known that I, Jnssn A. LANDIS, a housing and concentric with the socket B. cltlzen of the United States, residing at The lamp 0 .isfltheii placed-1n position and Eaton, in the county of Preble and State will bear against the recessedor rounded 55 5 of Ohio,have invented a new and useful ends of the tongues 4 as shown in Figure Glare Reducer for Headlights, of which 1, thereby holding the disk 1 pressed firmly the following is a specification. against the housing so that it will be held This invention relates to glare reducers in proper position and will-not rattle. As for use in connection with the headlights this disk is made of :a dull material, the to of automobiles and the like, one of its obback portion of the reflecting surface of jects being to provide a simple and ineX- the housing will not perform its usual pensive attachn'ient which can be placed function. and, instead, the only light rays readily in position backof the: lamp in the reflected outwardly from the housing will housing and which will be held .in place be those directed against the reflectingsur- 6 without the use of separate springs or other face at points in front of the disk 1.

holding means. What is claimed is:

-With the foregoing'and other'objects in 1. A glare/reducer of they class described view, which will appear as the description including adisk of dull material having a proceeds, the invention resides in the comcentral opening and tongues extending out--70 bination and arrangement of parts and in wardly from the disk and converging, said the details of construction hereinafter de tongues extending around the opening for scribed and claimed, it. being understood engaging a lamp to hold the edge of the that, within the scope of what is claimed, disk pressed yieldingly against the housing changesin the precise embodiment of the of the'lamp.

intention shown can be made without de- 2. The combination with a lamphousing, parting from the spiritlof the invention. and 'a lamp removably mounted in the In the accompanying drawings the prehousing, of a glare reducer including a disk ferred form of the invention has been seated within and against the back portion shown. l of the housing, said disk having a central 80 80 In said drawings opening, and converging tongues struck V I Figure 1 is a section through a portion from the disk and bearing against the f of a lamp housing and showing the present lamp to hold the edge of the disk pressed improvement combined therewith. yieldingly against the housing. I Figure 2 is a front elevation of the glare 3. A glare reducer of the class described 85 reducer. including athin disk of sheetmetal having Referring to the figures bycharacters of a central opening with spaced slits extendreference A designates a portion of a lamp 111g. radially therefrom and arranged in housing of the usual construction provided palrs wlth tongues formed bee-ween them with the socket B and the usual lamp C. and bent outwardly from the disk, the free .90

40 The device constituting the presentinvein ends of said tongues being,curvedzinwardly tion consists ofa disk 1 of thin sheet metal, to define the walls of the central opening such as copper or the like, the same being and'to engage the curved faces of a light provided with a central opening 2' from bulb whereby the disk is held in operative which extend slits 3 arranged. in pairs so position when in use. 95

4521s to form between them tongues 4 bent Intestimony. that I claim the foregoing outwardly from the disk. The free ends as my own, I have hereto ailixedmy signa of the tongues are provided with curved ture in the presence of two witnesses.

edges adapted, whenthe tongues are fiat JESSE A. LANDIS.

0r flush with the disk 1, to define the cen- Witnesses tral circular opening 2. RILEY PITSINGER,

In using'the glare reducer the disk is OnviLLn STANTON. 

